Marlene Reidel (née Maria Magdalena Hartl; 20 December 1923 – 21 July 2014)[1] was a German artist known for illustrating and writing picture books.

[1] She worked as an apprentice ceramicist at the Huber-Roethe ceramics workshop while young.

[4] Beginning in 1943, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, alongside artists Hans Gött and Josef Oberberger.

[10] Her picture books were distributed by German publishers Annette Betz and Karl Thienemanns.

She also designed windows for the Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Geisenhausen.